Hefajat leader -‘Siege was designed to oust govt’
Source: The Daily Star A top leader of Hefajat-e Islam has told a court in Dhaka that the group’s May 5 Dhaka siege programme was designed to oust the Awami…
State Dept. Report Says Countries Have Repressed Religious Freedom With Laws
Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents,…
Why I’m protesting against Gap over Bangladesh
Source: CNN Money By Emily Jane Fox NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Anu Mandavilli is joining a protest against Gap, at the clothing company’s annual meeting on Tuesday. Her beef: Gap doesn’t…
Three Hifazat leaders remanded
Source: BDNews 24 A Dhaka court has remanded three Hifazat-e Islam activists for four days to police custody in two cases filed over the May 5 violence in capital Dhaka’s…
Surplus fund comes as economic relief
Source: BDNews 24 DHAKA:Bangladesh registered a current account balance surplus of over $2.8 billion in the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal (2012-13). This is seen as a…
Cyclone Mahasen Fizzles as It Hits Bangladesh
Source: NY Times. COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed…
H&M, Tommy sign Bangladesh factory safety pact
Source: CNN Money H&M, the global fast fashion store, on Monday agreed to support a new plan to prevent fires and building collapses in Bangladesh apparel factories. The company’s announcement…
Economic Recovery, Made in Bangladesh?
Source: NY Times By ADAM DAVIDSON A couple of years ago, I was in an industrial park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a textiles executive pitched me on becoming a rich…
Bangladesh Plans to Raise Pay for Garment Workers
Source: NY Times/AP DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of…
Survivor rescued from rubble 16 days after Bangladesh factory collapse
By Ian Johnston and Sohel Uddin, NBC News A survivor was pulled alive from the ruins of an eight-story factory in Bangladesh on Friday, more than 16 days after it…
Cyber disinformation campaign
Source: Daily Star Editorial. Doctored news confuses general public. THE scale and sophistication involved in spreading propaganda around the number of casualties at Shapla Chattar during the crackdown by security…
US support war crimes trial
Source: BD News 24 Washington DC: The United States has reiterated its support to the Bangladesh government’s initiative to put to trial the crimes against humanities committed during the 1971…
No harm can come if it’s not Allah’s will.
Business Insider: by Michael Kelley. A couple of hours ago a woman was rescued from the Bangladesh factory that collapsed on April 24. It’s nothing short of miraculous that woman, named Reshma, was found “almost unhurt”…
War crime trial: Kamaruzzaman to hang
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: Law enforcers take Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to jail on Thursday. International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced him to death as it found him guilty of five…
Pakistan and Bangladesh: Talibanism versus Secularism?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People’s Republic of Bangladesh, two countries, which have a similar past and were one country until 1971,…
Bangladesh Garment Industry Tragedy’s Solution by Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Courtesy: The Daily Star Thursday, May 09, 2013 Savar tragedy, garments industry and Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus Photo: AFP THE Savar tragedy is a symbol of our failure as a…
First non-European Nobel Laureate,Tagore’s encounters with contemporary brilliant minds
Tagore’s encounters with contemporary brilliant minds Fahmim Ferdous Courtesy: The Daily Star Quantum mechanics meets literature: Tagore and Einstein in Berlin. While many perceive Rabindranath Tagore as a…
Hifazat burns Quran, Hadith in blind rage
Source: BD News 24 By Reazul Bashar It was Monday morning, at around 11am, when a stroll at Paltan Intersection towards Comrade Moni Singha Intersection revealed heaps of ashes lying…
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